updated to ios 9 and later to 9.01 and 9.02 on iphone5s, unable to use phone to make calls or access contacts as screen freezes while doing the same, able to use all other apps, any fixes??? please help

My wife, daughter and I are having the same problem. after downloading 9.02 on all three devices, the phone scree freezes. cannot type. The phone turns off or returns to the home screen.

Hi

Try a Reboot press & hold power button& menu button

Hold both down until you see Apple Logo .

This can take UPTO 30seconds .

If this doesn't help Restore back to Factory Settings .

Cheers

Brian ( uk)

I am experiencing the very same issue. I even got a brand new iPhone 6 64GB from the apple store. Just out of the box it wasn't updated to iOS 9.x and still had iOS 8.4 installed as the base OS. So I powered it up and I logged into iCloud because that is where all of my contacts are stored. I waited an hour to successfully download all of my 3000 to 4000-ish contacts. I did not install any other applications; Just the default phone from the apple store and all of my contacts. The phone and contacts worked seamlessly well on iOS 8.4. I then upgraded to iOS 9.0.2 and all **** broke loose on my iPhone. Now I can only type the first 2 keys of anyone's name then the contacts application freezes for 60 seconds. Its very frustrating. I've had a case open with apple for roughly 3 weeks and the support rep while very polite and nice simply cannot do anything to help the issue at this point. iOS 9 is laced with tons of bugs. Please tell your peers not to upgrade and wait. Too buggy right now and renders the iPhone barely useable.